Major League Baseball Managers

[prewinter]

Originally Posted by tnfoto

As shown in the 04-Apr-1886 NY Sun. Gifford managed the 1884 Indianapolis Hoosiers and the 1885-86 New York Metropolitans.

There is a photo purported to be of the 1887 Columbus baseball club online:
https://digital-collections.columbus.../african/id/37

If this is that club, the manager is identified in the Columbus Dispatch on April 29, 1887 as J.H. Gifford, who was brought in from Syracuse, which would be Jim Gifford (giffor001jam). So here is a comparison of the manager in the 1887 with the known image of Mr. Gifford. Is it a match? The mustache makes it hard to compare.

[stlcardsfan]

Does anyone have a photo of Charlie Fox who was a manager for the cubs in 1983?

[tnfoto]

Originally Posted by stlcardsfan

Does anyone have a photo of Charlie Fox who was a manager for the cubs in 1983?

Here are two options...

[stlcardsfan]

Originally Posted by tnfoto

Here are two options...

Awesome, thank you. Could find nothing on google or getty for fox.

[Amazin69]

Understandable that the Managers' Pack only has one image per skipper, and understandable that with Billy it's a Yankees pic…

…but as he's apparently not in this thread at all, I thought I'd add a Twins pic I found on Pinterest:



It's a pretty nice pic, IMO.

[Amazin69]

Billy wins his first (and only) World Series as a manager, pictured with his favorite of his players:



From Tony Kornheiser's season-opening profile of George Steinbrenner ("That Damn Yankee", April 9, 1978, The New York Times magazine section). The piece is reproduced in full on The Bronx Banter Blog.

[Amazin69]

After 25 years as a Washington Senator (21 pitching, 4 as manager), The Big Train finds a new track, taking over the Indians in mid-season. (Date of picture is June 12)

From the current RMY auction but I took out the yellowing and reduced the facial shadow.



"Barney" does return to DC, but in the radio booth. If you have that 1939 Athletics-Senators radio call, that's Walter.

[Cusick]

Joe Espada made debut as major league manager with Houston Astros on 3/28/2024.

[Cusick]

Stephen Vogt made debut as major league manager with Cleveland Guardians on 3/28/2024.

[Cusick]

Carlos Mendoza made his debut as a major league manager with the New York Mets on March 29, 2024.

[prewinter]

Harry Spence played for roughly ten years in the 1870s-1880s. Towards the end of his career, he managed Indianapolis in the National League in 1888. I ran across a reference to a picture of him in a paper called the Sporting Times. All I can find on the Sporting Times is that it was a weekly published in London, devoted mostly to racing. It is available on the British Newspaper Archive, but I have burned my three free views on that site already.

So I have two questions. The first is do I have the correct Sporting Times, or is there another that I'm missing? And second is does anyone know where else I could find this Sporting Times online, or wherever else this picture might be located?

[tnfoto]

Originally Posted by prewinter

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So I have two questions. The first is do I have the correct Sporting Times, or is there another that I'm missing? And second is does anyone know where else I could find this Sporting Times online, or wherever else this picture might be located?

I looked at the three late-December 1887 issues of the British Sporting Times. There does not seem to be an image that would match the Indianapolis News claim.

The SABR bio for 1890 Brooklyn Gladiators manager Jim Kennedy mentions that Kennedy and P.J. Donahue started a New York-based weekly sports paper titled The Sporting Times in March 1887, which is a more likely source. I have not yet found an online repository for the NY Sporting Times.

[prewinter]

Originally Posted by tnfoto

I looked at the three late-December 1887 issues of the British Sporting Times. There does not seem to be an image that would match the Indianapolis News claim.

The SABR bio for 1890 Brooklyn Gladiators manager Jim Kennedy mentions that Kennedy and P.J. Donahue started a New York-based weekly sports paper titled The Sporting Times in March 1887, which is a more likely source. I have not yet found an online repository for the NY Sporting Times.

That would make more sense. I was wondering why a British sports paper focused on horse racing would have a picture of an American baseball manager. Thanks for clearing that up. I wonder if the NY Public Library system has microfilm (or even hard copies) of the publication. Next step (in my infinite free time...)